Feast Goat Winner Nobel Prize Literature

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin Americas twentieth century. Times Literary SupplementUrania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong selfimposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Uranias own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillos reign. In 1961, Trujillos decadent inner circle (which includes Uranias soontobe disgraced father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized. | Mario Vargas Llosa The Feast of the Goat : Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature